Paige Turner

Six men who shaped New Zealand's road transport industry have been inducted into the NZ Road Transport Hall of Fame at a gala dinner held at Bill Richardson Transport World in Invercargill. Wayne "Ox" McEwan, Edwin Mansell, Geoffrey "Marty" Greaves, Cornelius van Opzeeland, Greg

Southland has been left without a permanent full-time urologist, with Health New Zealand transferring patients as far as Christchurch and paying locums $3000 a day to plug the gap — while internal documents show bosses rated the situation as an "extreme" risk and warned of the potential "collapse

Four million dollars into a $21 million repair budget, and not a single fix has been made to Invercargill's crumbling civic headquarters. The Civic Building on Esk Street — several decades old and struggling with water ingress, failing heating and cooling systems, and outdated electrics — shed 167 of its

The government's books are in better shape than expected, with Treasury forecasting a significantly smaller deficit and a path back to surplus that Finance Minister Nicola Willis called "within a hair's breadth" of breaking even a year ahead of schedule. The Pre-election Economic and

Invercargill's rules around residential development are changing — and from this Friday, they'll be locked in for good. Plan Change 2: Housing and Code of Practice becomes fully operative on October 2, rewriting parts of the Invercargill City District Plan to allow greater density and a wider

Invercargill City Council is consulting on parking changes at four locations — the Museum of Southland, Wachner Place, Esk Street West, and Stirling Point in Bluff — along with a structural overhaul of how parking rules are written and updated. Consultation opened Wednesday September 23 and runs until 5pm Sunday October 25.

Two 19-year-olds have been charged with murdering a young child in Southland, after the child died at Auckland's Starship Children's Hospital on Wednesday. Emergency services were called to a property in Otautau on Sunday. The child was taken to hospital in a critical condition. Police launched

Fonterra farmers are getting $9.69 per kilogram of milk solids for the season just finished, with the co-operative posting its strongest result in years after a period of significant change. The co-op reported total group operating profit of $3.4 billion for FY26, up 97.6% on the prior